17 interesting facts about crying
- The term crying commonly refers to the act of shedding tears as a response to an emotional state in humans.
- 70% of criers make no attempt to hide their crying.
- 20% of bouts of crying last longer than 30 minutes.
- 8% go on for longer than one hour.
- Tears are the liquid product of a process of crying to clean and lubricate the eye
- 39% of crying occurs in the evening, the most popular time compared with morning, afternoon, and night (16, 29 and 17 per cent respectively).
- The word lacrimation (from L. Lacrima meaning Tear) (also spelled lachrymation) may also be used in a medical or literary sense to refer to crying.
- 77% of crying takes place at home.
- 15% at work or in the car.
- The act of crying has been defined as "a complex secretomotor phenomenon characterized by the shedding of tears from the lacrimal apparatus, without any irritation of the ocular structures"
- 40% of people weep alone.
- 88.8% feel better after a cry.
- The process of yawning may also result in lacrimation.
- 6-8pm is the most common time for crying.
- 7: annual number of crying episodes for a man.
- 47: average number of times a woman cries each year.
- Although most land mammals have a lacrimation system to keep their eyes moist and in response to other stimuli, humans are the only mammal generally accepted to cry emotional tears.
